The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 571] 
                                  
                                  Sire at oo word if þat þe list it haue
                                
                                  ȝe schulle paye fourty pound so god me saue
                                  Line 1361 
                                
                                  And ne were þe frendschipe þat ȝe dide er þis
                                
                                  To me ȝe scholde paye more y-wys
                                
                                  This prest þe somme of .xl. pound anon.
                                
                                  Of nobles fette and took hem euerychon
                                  Line 1365 
                                
                                  To þis chanon for þis ilke receyt
                                
                                  Al his worchinge was fraude and deceyt
                                
                                  Sire prest he seyde I kepe for to haue no loos
                                
                                  Of my craft for I wolde it were kept cloos
                                  Line 1369 
                                
                                  And as ȝe loueþ me kepeþ it secre
                                
                                  ffor and men knewen al my subtilte
                                
                                  By god men wolde haue so gret envye
                                
                                  To me by cause of my philosophie
                                  Line 1373 
                                
                                  I scholde be deed þer were non oþer weye
                                
                                  God it forbede quod þe preest what seye
                                
                                  ȝet hadde I leuer spenden al þe good
                                
                                  Which þat I haue and elles waxe I wood
                                  Line 1377 
                                
                                  þan þat ȝe schulde falle in such mescheef
                                
                                  ffor ȝoure good wil sire haue ȝe right good preef
                                
                                  Quoþ þe chanon and sire wol graunt mercy
                                
                                  he wente his way and neuer þe prest he sey
                                  Line 1381 
                                
                                  After þat day and whan þat þis prest scholde
                                
                                  maken assay at swich tyme as he wolde
                                
                                  Of þis receyt far wel it wolde not be
                                
                                  lo þus byiaped and bygyled was he
                                  Line 1385 
                                
                                  þus makeþ he his introduccion
                                
                                  To bringe folk to here destruccion [folio 189b] 
                                
                                  Considereþ sires how þat in eche astate
                                
                                  Bitwixe men and gold þer is debate
                                  Line 1389 
                                
                                  So ferforþ þat vnneþes þer is non
                                
                                  This multiplyȝing blendeþ so many oon
                                
                                  þat in good faiþ I trowe þat it be
                                
                                  þe cause grettest of þis skarsete
                                  Line 1393 
                                
                                  This philosophres speken so mystily
                                
                                  In þis craft þat men can not come þerby

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 421
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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